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RockYou, the maker of social games and ad services for social media, said today it is working with other game developers to integrate its successful social marketing program within their Facebook games.
The Redwood City, Calif.-based company has been integrating the Deal of the Day into its own games such as Zoo World since March. In the deal, users encounter a screen in the midst of a game where they have to decide whether to spend money or not. If they don’t want to buy virtual currency with a credit card to pay for a virtual item, they have another option — the deal. If they choose to accept the special offer (like the one pictured above from Pantene, the shampoo brand). If they take it, the user can proceed to the transaction, getting their virtual currency in exchange for a promise to do something, such as watching an ad.
Sandy Diep, vice president of advertising, said in an interview that the deals are particularly effective. Only a few percent of users will pay for a game item with a credit card. But some Diep said 10 percent of users click on Deal of the Day offers. And about 50 percent to 70 percent of those users accept it, a particularly high take rate.
RockYou says deals that offer to give users something if they watch a 15- to 30-second video work particularly well. The offers also ask users to engage in surveys or polls, or they ask them to play mini games. RockYou says it reaches millions of users already with the Deal of the Day. Overall, RockYou says developers can increase their ability to make money from users by three times to four times. On top of that, a number of big Fortune 1000 brands, like Coca-Cola and Hewlett-Packard, are participating in the deals, bringing high-end brands into social gaming.
RockYou, founded in 2005, reaches more than 280 million unique users a month and produces 15 billion monthly ad impressions. Backers include Sequoia Capital, Partech International, Lightspeed Venture Partners, DCM, SK Telecom Ventures and Softbank.
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Following the bandwagon of the other social media platforms, LinkedIn, the professional social network, is adopting new features by the day in a move to offer the best potential from its interface. In a recent blog post by the platform, they mentioned the addition of a new feature that allows the users to post multiple pictures in a single post. LinkedIn is a platform that is moving slowly with its new features and not making any major changes, which is understandable given the professional nature of the platform. They did add a new video feature, but that did not make any major change to the functionality of the platform, like the stories by Instagram, Facebook and now WhatsApp.
The multiple-photos feature was initially available only to Twitter and Facebook users. It was in the form of photo albums on Facebook, while on Twitter it was just a generic post. It later spread to Instagram, with the introduction of carousel ads and then the feature was made available to all users and organic posts.
LinkedIn launched this new feature in the form of a ‘Tip Tuesday’ post and here is what they posted in their blog section:
“Want to share photos from an industry event you attended? Or how about photos from your team offsite that capture your company culture? You can now select multiple photos to include in a single post on LinkedIn. With this new feature, you can share more than one view of the experience you want to share with your network. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, now imagine what multiple pictures will do.”
The idea behind this new feature is to enhance the use of pictures in a single post and to be able to describe a particular event more elaborately. You could also use this feature to enhance your professional profile; you could post some pictures of your workspace OR post some pictures of a new product or service and make an album or post a few different sub products that are being launched in a single category. In another attempt, you could post some graphs or charts to explain a certain concept or presentation.
In recent months, LinkedIn has added in a range of smaller updates and tweaks to improve the user experience, including an in-built profile image camera, pictures in comments, new ‘Profile Views’ data points and native video. They also re-added the ability to get quick information about a user by hovering over their username in the feed just last week.
It would be okay to say that LinkedIn is taking a sound approach to strengthen its core and not jump on to any upcoming trend like every other social media platform. This is working best for them as they are not a trend-setting social media platform, they have their niche in the social network and they are doing pretty good with their timely updates.
The ability to add multiple photos is available now on iOS, and is coming soon to Android and desktop.

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A Wealthy Young Man Pushed His New BMW Into A River, Upset He Didn’t Get A Jaguar
A young Indian man, described in a police report as “spoiled,” allegedly pushed his brand-new BMW into a river because he wanted a Jaguar, Newsweek reports.
NOTE: Conflicting reports describe the body of water where this incident took place as a canal, river or lake.
The 22-year-old, identified as Akash, had apparently been telling his parents for some time that he wanted a Jaguar for his birthday. His in-laws got him a Toyota Innova — a mid-range SUV available in India for around $32,000. But that wasn’t good enough. Akash’s dad sold the Innova and used the money to purchase Akash a $49,000 BMW.
Akash was apparently not at all pleased about that — after all, a BMW is not a Jaguar. So to drive home his point, the young man reportedly pushed the new car into a river, according to Mukesh Kumar, an officer for the Chhachhrauli police.
“Akash was demanding a Jaguar car from his father, but when his father failed to buy him one, he threw away his BMW in a fit of anger.”
Villagers in Yamunanagar don’t see pricey BMWs sinking into a canal every day, so they called the police. Soon enough, some heavy equipment was dispatched, and with the help of an earth mover and a tow cable, the luxury car was pulled from the water.
It appears that Akash, who said that the BMW “too small” for him and his friends to hang out in, according to Yahoo News, filmed himself pushing the ride into the river. You can see the event and the rescue efforts in the video below.
Akash’s father, described as a wealthy landowner, denies that his son deliberately pushed his car into the water, saying that he swerved to avoid an antelope in the road. He also said that Akash never asked for a Jaguar for his birthday, and that he has a “mental health issue” that impairs his judgment.
No arrests have been made since no criminal complaint has been filed.
— BMW (@BMW) August 12, 2019
As for the BMW, it’s unclear, as of this writing, if it can ever be driven again. According to Junk Car Medics, there’s no hard-and-fast answer to whether or not a submerged car can be fully repaired. Although it bears noting that a car has a better chance of recovering if it were submerged in fresh water rather than salt water.
It seems that Akash is not the first person of wealth to destroy an expensive car in anger. Back in 2011, a Chinese man, upset with engine troubles with his $200,000 Lamborghini, hired a group of workers to destroy the vehicle with sledgehammers.


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Release Date: April 7, 2009
U.S. and World Economies to Highlight ASU Symposium
Angelo State University will welcome Dr. Eugenio J. Alem�n, senior economist and vice president of Wells Fargo Bank, as the keynote speaker for the 11th annual International Business Symposium Tuesday, April 14, on the ASU campus.
Alem�n will address the question “Where are the U.S. and World Economies Heading?” in his presentation at 9:30 a.m. April 14 in the ASU Houston Harte University Center’s C.J. Davidson Conference Center. His presentation is open free to the public.
The symposium will also include a seminar on “Global Exporting Essentials” hosted by Douglas Smith, assistant director of the International Trade Center (ITC) in San Antonio. The seminar will run from 2-4 p.m. in the University Center’s Nasworthy Suite 203/204 and is also open free to the public.
Alem�n joined Wells Fargo Bank as a senior economist in July 2005. A prominent forecaster of regional, national and international economic trends, he previously spent seven years as the managing director of Latin American Service for Global Insight, one of the most important economic forecasting and consulting firms in the U.S. He holds a doctorate in economics with emphasis on economic development and international trade and finance from Florida International University.
Smith has been an international trade and marketing consultant for more than 20 years. He has consulted for small businesses and major corporations, such as IBM, Motorola and Johnson Wax, and has worked with various trade associations and foreign trade commissions. His international experience includes numerous projects involving Western Europe, South America, Asia and Africa. He holds a M.A. in government and international relations and a M.B.A. in finance and international business from the University of Texas and is a certified global business professional.
The International Business Symposium is a joint production of the ASU Small Business Development Center, International Trade Office and Center for International Studies; ING Financial Advisers, LLC; and Gary Rodgers, CFP, CPA, ChFC.
For more information on the International Business Symposium contact the SBDC at 942-2098 or go online to www.sbdc.angelo.edu.


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Behind the Scenes at the Inside Jersey Magazine fashion shoot at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City
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Model Chris Campanioni at the "High Rollers" table at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City on Friday, March 11, 2011 for the Inside Jersey Men's Fashion shoot running in the June edition of the magazine. Chris's outfit is clipped for a last-minute perfect fit. Photo by Kathryn Nguyen.


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September 22, 2013 |
VARANASI: After hand weaving Banarasi silk for several years, a weaver has developed a handloom which can be folded, detached and is portable. It can be carried to any place in small bags. Hasham Turabi, a resident of Ausanganj area of the city has also added significance to his innovation by patenting his product recently. The Union government had granted patent (number 255485) to this product on February 26, 2013. Hasham and his nephew Mohammad Taha, participated in an innovators' meet organised by Malviya Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (MCIIE)
September 19, 2013 |
They were the silk weavers of Gujarat who migrated to Banares, during the famine of 1603. It's ancient. It is believed that the Banarasi sari gained prominence during the Mughal Rule. Then the influx of Chinese yarn perished the silk handloom industry of Banaras. Intrusion of the powerlooms completely wiped off the face of earth, the quintessential handloom made Banarasi silk sari. In 1993 that slow chatter of handlooms ebbed. Now, a thousand kilometres away, in Chandigarh a few elite women have given their contribution to this dying art and created history.
September 11, 2013 |
SILCHAR: It is for the first time that Dima Hasao district's handloom work was exhibited outside the state. The North Cachar Hills Tribal Regional Handloom Weaver Co-operative Society Ltd of Dima Hasao has recently opened its first showroom in Kolkata. North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC) chief executive member Debojeet Thaosen inaugurated a new branch cum showroom of the handloom weaver co-operative society at Uttarapan Market, Maniktala Civic Centre in Kankurgachi locality in Kolkata.
September 11, 2013 |
BHUBANESWAR: Cotton Fab 2013, an exhibition of handloom and handicraft products at the exhibition ground here, has brought together the splendid crafts and weaves from across the country. The exhibition has already become a crowd puller among city dwellers. The expo has a huge variety of stitched suits, casual and semi-formal kurtis, cotton kurtas, bed sheets and home furnishing items, including mats and table covers made of various fabrics. There are also shops selling silver and artificial jewellery, terracotta figurines, wood furniture, shoes and bangles.
August 15, 2013 |
VARANASI : After being neglected for long, ever since it was built, the Urban Haat finally gets attention of the state government. In a meeting of state tourism ministry officials, held on Monday, it was decided that the state government will renovate and further redesign the Urban Haat in Varanasi . Regional tourism officer, Ravindra Mishra said the state government was planning to open Urban Haat in other major cities of the...
August 13, 2013 |
BHUBANESWAR: Minister of state for textiles, handlooms and handicrafts SarojiniHembram on Monday requested Union minister for textiles KavuruSambasivaRao to relax Centre's guidelines to provide assistance to targeted beneficiaries under different schemes. Hembram made this request during a discussion with the Union minister, who was here on a tour. She also discussed with Rao schemes and programmes, concerning weavers. The union minister assured the state government that he would take steps to address problems of weavers in the state, said a government release here.
August 12, 2013 |
SHIMLA : Himachal Pradesh has demanded to set up Indian Institute of Handloom Technology in Kullu District to meet the growing demand of latest design, technology and skilled manpower in handloom and handicraft sector in the state. Member of Parliament Pratibha Singh on Monday called on Union Textile Minister Dr K S Rao in Udyog Bhawan at New Delhi and made a request to this effect. She said that Kullu, Chamba, Shimla , Kinnaur districts were famous for Shawls, Caps and other woollen products which had great demand in India as well as abroad.
August 11, 2013 |
BERHAMPUR: A computer-aided textile and handloom design centre will be established here to train weavers in latest designs. The process for setting up the centre has started and training will also start soon," said textiles and handlooms minister Sarojini Hembram. Most weavers of the Silk City make the famous 'Berhampuri patta'. The training will boost their sales, the minister said. The District Rural Development Agency, Ganjam, has sanctioned Rs 20 lakh for the project. At least two designers with degrees in fashion technology from reputed institutes will be engaged at the centre to develop attractive designs for handloom sarees.
August 6, 2013 |
VARANASI : The textile ministry had assured handloom weavers for their inclusion in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ( MGNREGA ) scheme. MGNREGA initiated by the ministry of rural development aims at enhancing livelihood security of households in rural areas of the country by providing 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household, whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The works undertaken through MGNREGA give priority to activities related to water harvesting, groundwater recharge, drought-proofing and flood protection.
August 3, 2013 |
VARANASI : Union textile minister Dr KuvuruSambshivaRao assured the status of a handloom megacluster in Varanasi while interacting with members of Eastern UP Exporters Association ( EUPEA ) in the city on Saturday. While the formalities in this regard will be conducted in New Delhi on Monday, he asked manufacturers and exporters to give him verbal assurance they will able to carry on cluster effectively. Meanwhile, members of EUPEA made several demands and suggestions before the union minister during their discussion.


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Sonos has just made its new portable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth speaker official with the announcement of the Sonos Move, alongside the Port and the One SL. AppleInsider was in New York City with Sonos to try the speakers.
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AirPods charging case covers are becoming more and more prevalent. Not only do nearly all major accessory makers now have their own spin on them, but Apple is even carrying a select few in its brick and mortar retail locations. We're putting popular options to the test to round up the best AirPods case covers currently on sale.
Over the past few years, the market has flooded with smartphone gimbals due to the quality of smartphone cameras, plus falling costs and miniaturization of gimbal technology. DJI has been at the forefront of all this, and is continuing that with the Osmo Mobile 3 gimbal.
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Home misses mark in Q1 at Macy’s but back on road to recovery
May 14, 2014,
Cincinnati – Poor weather conditions did their worst to dampen Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s sales performances in the first quarter, hurting the home segment the most with lagging sales throughout the department.
But these trends are already shifting since late April, and home is starting to uptick, thanks in part to better weather and warmer climates around the country.
Later in the call, in response to an analyst’s question about competition in home, Hoguet explained the company expects the recent softness in the category was only temporary.
“Home stood out [in Q1] because home has been so strong for so long. But there is nothing we are seeing on the competitive front to lead us to be concerned about home long term.”
Turning to total company performance, net income was a bright spot with a 3.23% increase to $224 million from $217 million a year ago, and earnings up 9% to 60 cents per diluted share from 55 cents per diluted share in the first quarter of 2013.
However, sales dipped 1.7% to $6.279 billion from $6.387 billion in the same period last year, and comps were down 1.6%. Together with sales from departments licensed to third parties, first quarter 2014 sales on a comparable basis were down 0.8%.
“We were up against a strong comparable period a year ago,” Hoguet said. “We were expecting sales to be stronger than they were at both Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s….and the weather clearly played a major role in the weakness.”
Not surprisingly, the South “did far better in terms of sales,” she continued, than the North region, where weather was harsher and colder. By line of business, the best performers in Q1 included handbags, impulse apparel for Millennial customers, active, kids, and intimate apparel. Additionally, segments that continued their momentum included juniors for younger Millennial shoppers – “which is very important for us.”
Looking ahead, the company continues to expect comparable sales growth in fiscal 2014 in the range of 2.5% to 3%, and it reiterated its guidance for earnings per diluted share in fiscal 2014 of $4.40 to $4.50.
The company also announced a 25% increase in its dividend on common stock and a $1.5 billion increase in its share repurchase authorization.
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A range of machinery, including sugar beet harvesters, a self-propelled sugar beet chaser and a sprayer, will go under the hammer in a timed online auction between Tuesday 31st August and Thursday 9th September. The event will be hosted by Cheffins on behalf of Agrifac UK Ltd.
Charles Wadsley, associate at Cheffins commented: “With Cheffins’ international reach and exhaustive buyer database, hosting a timed online sale will allow Agrifac to widen the market for its second-hand trade-in machines and allow the company to move on some of the abundant stock which it currently has on offer. This sale is set to be of interest for those involved in sugar beet harvesting and will be an opportunity for Agrifac to dip its toe in the water when it comes to selling trade-in stock via auction.
“As timed online sales continue to pay dividends for not only farmers but also manufacturers looking to dispose of copious stock, we have seen an increase in the number of sales which we are hosting at Cheffins and the prices achieved accordingly. Agrifac is one of the UK’s largest agricultural machinery manufacturers, and we are delighted to have the opportunity to host this sale on its behalf.”
Highlights of the sale include a 2003 Holmer T2 six-row beet harvester, starting bid £15,000; a 2000 Holmer T2 self-propelled beet chaser, starting bid 15,000; a 1998 Agrifac WKM-9000 six-row beet harvester, starting bid £12,000; a 2006 Vervaet 625 six-row beet harvester, starting bid £15,000 and a 2015 Rogator 635B 36m self-propelled sprayer which has a starting bid of £40,000.
Chris Armitage, managing director at Agrifac said: “We’re excited to delve into a new avenue of second-hand machinery trading with the help from the team at Cheffins this Autumn. As we approach sugar beet season, we have a number of harvesters imminently ready for their next lease of life, so jumped at the chance of the combined auction-hosting to test the waters with the potential view of taking an annual slot in Cheffins’ auction calendar to expand our reach to more potential buyers.”
A viewing day will be held on Friday 3rd September from 10am to 4pm at the Agrifac UK premises (1 Martin Avenue, March, PE15 0AY)
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Macquarie Media today announced the launch of an innovative new national motoring program, “CarAdvice”, in partnership with CarAdvice.com.
The weekly program will be heard on Nights with Steve Price across Australia on 2GB Sydney, 3AW Melbourne, 4BC Brisbane, regional stations and will also be streamed online and via the station apps.
CarAdvice will air from 9pm Mondays and deliver the big news in motoring from across Australia and around the world. From new car launches, reviewing cars, comparing vehicles, great road trips, practical driving advice to buying and selling tips, plus listeners will be able to call in each week as part of the show and ask the car experts questions.
CarAdvice will be hosted by Macquarie Media’s Steve Price who has over 30 years’ experience as a journalist, and hosts the number one evening radio show in Sydney and Melbourne. He will be joined by CarAdvice associate publisher James Ward and Senior Road Tester Paul Maric, both seasoned motoring journalists with over 30 years’ combined industry experience.
Planning for the show commenced in the back half of 2015 when CarAdvice wanted to extend its online brand into a radio show. A weekly talkback segment featuring CarAdvice has been running on Thursday afternoons on 3AW since February this year and has proven a hit with listeners. Extending the segment to a longer format program with a national audience was a logical next step.
“Adding the CarAdvice radio show to our listener-driven programming made total sense for us. 92 per cent of Macquarie Media listeners already own one or more cars and they are 30 per cent more likely to purchase a new vehicle than the average adult*. The CarAdvice program is an exciting addition to our line up,” said Macquarie’s national sales director Mark Noakes.
CarAdvice CEO, Andrew Beecher said, “Our vision is to be the number one automotive media brand across all channels, so expanding into radio is a great way to put our content in front of even more consumers. Our goal in working with Macquarie Media is to ensure the CarAdvice radio show will be the largest and most influential automotive radio program in Australia.”
CarAdvice will debut on June 6 and will run every Monday evening across the Eastern States on the Macquarie Network.
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Thailand: Charoen Pokphand Group to relaunch its CP Food Market
After withdrawing from the supermarket business for more than a decade,
the Charoen Pokphand Group will relaunch its CP Food Market this month
with the relaunch of its first two markets in Bangkok this month.
The retail venture, the channel for CPFs group food products will be the distribution branch of the group's food products, says Supat Srithanathorn, the groups SET-listed flagship senior vice president, including meat, seafood, fruit and vegetables and products from other suppliers.
The future expansion of CP Fresh Mart stores will target crowded communities and walking streets in urban areas and is part of an effort to lift CPF's overall sales to 210-220 billion baht by the end 2011, up from 190 billion last year, he says.
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Dec. 25 is only four days away, but Fred Magel of Oak Park, Ill., is convinced 'tis not the season for ''Xmas.''
To Mr. Magel, Xmas should never be in season - and for 12 years he has petitioned the nation's businesses to keep the ''Christ'' in Christmas.
Gradually, he says, the crusade is being won. Signs, advertisements, and greeting cards inscribed ''Merry Xmas'' are now so uncommon that ''they have become collectors' items,'' he says.
He says he opposes Xmas because the 24th letter of the alphabet has unpleasant connotations in America. He cites X-rated movies, the signature of an illiterate, and the ''unknown'' in an algebraic equation. Even worse, Magel says , '' 'X marks the spot' where the gangster killed the victim.''
These associations have distorted any religious symbolism X may have had in ancient times, he says. Although X is the first letter of the Greek spelling of Christ, ''your average American schoolchild, or average adult for that matter, doesn't know it,'' he says.
A retired vice-president of United Film in Kansas City, Mo., Magel says he travels frequently, stopping to make a pitch for Christmas at retail stores along his way. He says he has persuaded florists, department store managers, and even T-shirt designers to spell it out.
Xmas ''doesn't look that nice, aesthetically,'' agrees John Dinardo, spokesman for Hallmark, the nation's top greeting card company. Hallmark, along with two other major card companies, has never used the abbreviation, ''except on a few humorous or contemporary-style cards,'' Mr. Dinardo says.
K-Mart Corporation also always uses the longer spelling in advertisements for its stores, says spokesman Susan McKelbey. ''There's been a firm rule on that for about 30 years,'' she says.
Among the few places where Xmas still appears are the classified advertisments, where brevity is critical, and homemade signs at local Christmas-tree lots, Magel says.
He says supporters of the campaign, including syndicated advice columnist Ann Landers, have sent letters to thank him for his efforts. Although he rings up a substantial phone bill during the year, Magel says he doesn't mind. ''The result in the heart and in the spirit is nice.''


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Blooming trade: Lim showing some flowers and the Website on his computer in Johor Baru.
JOHOR BARU: More people in the city here are turning to online shopping for bouquets, says a flower distribution company executive.
Maple Flora Enterprise managing director Isaac Lim said there had been a steady increase of at least 30% yearly for online orders, especially during occasions such as Mother’s Day.
“Over 60% of our sales are from online orders and there has been a sharp drop in walk-in customers since we launched a web page three years ago,” he said when met at his outlet along Jalan Badik 1 here.
Lim added that he had to import additional carnations from China, almost 20% more than usual, to meet the demand here for Mother’s Day celebrations this year.
“Carnations have always been a favourite for Mother’s Day. But this time more customers wanted imported carnations as the blooms are much bigger and prettier than the local ones,” he said.
Judy Florists owner, who wanted to be known only as Yeo, said he was expecting some 5,000 orders in conjunction with Mother’s Day this weekend.
“We have achieved more than 20% of the targeted sales this year,” he said, adding that three extra helpers were hired to fulfil the rising demand.
He added that while online flower purchases seemed to be the trend now, a few customers preferred to drop by the shop to pick out the flowers themselves.
A check by The Star showed that the average price for hand bouquets for Mother’s Day ranged from as low as RM10 to RM250 each, depending on the type of flowers and the number of stalks in the package.
The bouquets also included cakes, chocolates and even health products.
Many florists in the city also provided worldwide delivery services and charges are based on the delivery destination.
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The Xiaomi 13, the newest flagship phone from Chinese tech firm Xiaomi, reportedly debuted last week. Although the release date of the Xiaomi 13 Ultra is unknown, there are many rumours regarding its specifications and capabilities that are circulating online.
Over the past several days, there have been numerous rumours claiming the phone will boast one of the best cameras ever produced by the tech sector. Reputable website Digital Chat Station recently revealed some of the Xiaomi 13 Ultra’s key features.
Four cameras will likely be present on the smartphone, with the Sony IMX989 acting as the primary sensor. The IT industry has retained the sensor from the Xiaomi 12S Ultra.
A revolutionary feature of the next Xiaomi 13 Ultra smartphone is that it most likely has gimbal stabilisation. The rumour is that all four cameras will include PDAF focusing and direct time-of-flight (dToF) sensors. The circular camera housing design of the Xiaomi 12S Ultra will reportedly also be carried over to the Xiaomi 13 Ultra.
In the meantime, Xiaomi’s next flagship will come with MIUI 14, a fresh new Android skin. Xiaomi’s founder and CEO, Lei Jun, has revealed some of the most important information about the Xiaomi 13 phone, which already looks to be an improvement over Apple’s iPhone 14 of 2022.
Reports state that in the battery test, the Xiaomi 13 performed better than the Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max. The Xiaomi CEO also said that the R&D team is now attempting to increase the phone’s battery life to two days. If cellphones are able to run for up to 48 hours without a charge, that will be admirable.
Due to Jiang Zemin’s untimely passing, the event to launch the smartphone in China was postponed from December 1 to December 2.


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Universal Music Germany has made a major appointment by luring over one of Apple’s star music executives in Europe.
Patrick Mushatsi-Kareba (pictured) was Head Of Apple Music & iTunes Music in GSA (Germany, Switzerland and Austria), as well as Italy and PAN-Europe.
He joined the tech giant in 2008 following three years as Director of Music Programming at Napster.
Initially responsible for Apple’s music business in Germany and Austria, Mushatsi-Kareba added more territories as the years went on, as well as taking responsibility for Apple Music when it launched in 2015.
Now, though, he’s jumping the music-tech fence to become Universal Music Germany’s new General Manager of Marketing & Digital – reporting into UMG’s SVP of Digital Music, Daniel Lieberberg.
“I do not know a business partner [like] patrick, with the A&R skills he has, and I could not imagine a better sparring partner.”
Daniel Lieberberg, UMG
He isn’t the first to leap over that music-tech fence this year – notably, Universal’s own crunch negotiator Francis Keeling went in the other direction in May, joining Spotify as VP, Global Head Of Licensing.
Mushatsi-Kareba replaces Cornelius Ballin at Universal Music Germany. Ballin transferred to Universal Music Austria in March to become its General Manager.
UMG’s Daniel Lieberberg said: “I am extremely pleased that we were able to [bring] Patrick to Universal Music.
“Our team already knows him from numerous collaborations. I do not know a digital business partner [like] Patrick with the A & R skills he has, and I could not imagine a better sparring partner. His expertise, his charisma and experience will inspire our team for sure.”
Patrick Mushatsi-Kareba said: “I thank Daniel for the confidence and look forward to marketing the most exciting artist roster in Germany.”
He added: I am sure that together we will expand the success of [UMG’s] domestic artist [roster] even further.”Music Business Worldwide


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Solo.io Advances Application Networking Market with $135 Million Series C Funding
October 7, 2021
Leader in Istio Service Mesh Achieves “Unicorn Status” Amidst Tremendous Company, Market Growth
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Oct. 7, 2021 — Solo.io, the application networking company, today announced it has raised $135 million in Series C funding at a valuation of $1 billion — a 10x increase in valuation since the company’s previous funding round in October 2020. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, with participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures. Today’s financing brings Solo.io’s total funding raised to $171.5 million. This latest funding follows tremendous industry recognition as well as company and customer growth during the first half of 2021 including 500+% quarter-over-quarter growth, a 100% customer renewal rate, and 200+% net dollar growth in renewals. Solo.io will use the money to expand its worldwide go-to-market efforts, invest in product development and professional services, and expand its services and support offerings.
“In today’s digital world, connectivity is the lifeblood of an organization’s ability to deliver value,” said Ram Woo, partner at Altimeter Capital. “We believe Solo.io’s innovative application networking products are disrupting the existing API management landscape and tapping a broader market for service connectivity. Solo.io brings together amazing execution, customer focus, and a highly differentiated technology platform. We have been watching them for a while and are excited to partner with Idit and the team.”
Solo.io has announced several industry “first and only” product offerings this year that enable enterprises to connect application services across clusters and clouds. The Gloo Mesh Enterprise platform is an enterprise service mesh built on Istio for multi-cluster Kubernetes, VMs, and hybrid cloud deployments. Gloo Mesh Enterprise simplifies adoption of a service mesh, solves for difficult observability, security, and high-availability scenarios, and increases developer productivity. Gloo Mesh was also recently named an Outperformer and Leader in the GigaOm Radar Report for Service Mesh.
The vision of Solo.io is built upon the open source Envoy proxy and Istio service mesh, the clear winning projects in the service mesh space. Solo.io has been an active contributor to both projects from the very beginning. The Solo.io leadership team includes members of the Istio Steering Committee and Istio Technical Oversight Committee as well as noted Istio experts, including Lin Sun, Christian Posta, Ram Vennam, and Neeraj Poddar.
Solo.io will continue its growth trajectory using the new financing to further scale out its worldwide go-to-market strategy — recruiting sales, marketing, customer success, and engineering roles. As the market continues to evolve, Solo.io will be at the forefront of innovation and R&D in the application networking space.
“Our strategic focus has always been anticipating and meeting customer needs from a market and product standpoint. The fact that world-renowned companies such as SAP, Vonage, ADP, and Schneider Electric have partnered with us to provide application networking for their most critical business applications underscores this commitment,” said Idit Levine, Solo.io’s founder and CEO. “Solo has the concentration of deep expertise, customer commitment, and ability to execute that is unmatched by any other company in this area. This latest funding emphasizes that we are a safe, proven choice for enterprises looking to modernize their application network. Our company is now at an inflection point in terms of growth — and this investment will fuel our next level of team, product, and company expansion.”
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Tofino’s Crystal Cove Beach Resort has been awarded TripAdvisor’s best family destination designation.
The website recently released its 2019 Travellers Choice awards and Crystal Cove leads the list of top 25 hotels for families in Canada.
The resort placed second in the same category last year—behind 2018’s winner the Great Wolf Lodge of Niagara Falls—and is celebrating a successful award streak having earned the Tofino Long Beach Chamber of Commerce’s Business of the year award and an Eco Star Award for water conservation in 2018 and a Vancouver Island Business Excellence Award earlier this year.
“Being the number one family resort in Canada, that is pretty special,” the resort’s general manager JJ Belanger told the Westerly News.
“It just goes with this whole year of accolades that we’ve been getting so it’s pretty cool. Nice way to sort of wrap up the awards season.”
Belanger said he was ecstatic with the TripAdvisor honour because the resort’s online reputation is vital to its success.
“Tourists are looking online for everything. People don’t go online anymore, they live online,” he said.
“It’s so important for businesses to understand that your online reputation management is crucial to your overall business well-being now…It’s something that we take extremely seriously. We monitor on a daily basis, we course correct where needed and we take pride in the accomplishments of being highly rated. We don’t sleep until we make sure that we’ve done everything we can to get there.”
He added that Tofino is a bastion of strong accommodations and attractive shops that help boost Tofino’s profile as a unique and popular destination.
“Everybody in Tofino stands out. We are very fortunate to have some amazing businesses in this town and to be nominated within that category is very humbling because everybody here tries,” he said noting Tofino has a population of roughly 2,000 people, and over 500 business licences.
“The entrepreneurial spirit is insane. It’s bigger than probably any other per capita city in Canada and everybody pours their heart and soul into their operations and they work their butts off…To be at the pinnacle of that is very humbling because there are so many great businesses that I look up to in this town and I’m very happy to be part of that business community. Any kind of accolades that Tofino gets benefits the community.”
He said the resort enjoys a 60 per cent return visitation rate and works hard to turn first-time West Coast experiences into fun family traditions.
“We’re seeing this multigenerational shift here. The people who used to come here 30 years ago are now coming as seniors with their kids and their grandkids,” he said. “I can attribute that solely to our staff and our team because without them, none of this would be possible. We also have become family with our guests. The ones that come back year after year they come into the office and give us a big hug. You’re treated like family,” he said. “The whole family dynamic has gone beyond just the guests that are coming here with their families, we’ve created our own Crystal Cove family with them.”
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Apple was fined €5 million by the Dutch antitrust authorities on Monday, the fourth time it has been fined for refusing to enable software developers in the Netherlands to use non-Apple payment methods for dating apps on the App Store.
Since Apple missed a January 15 deadline to make modifications requested by the watchdog, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has begun levying weekly fines of €5 million. Antitrust officials and lawmakers in numerous countries, most recently in the United States, have questioned Apple’s app-store payment rules, particularly its insistence that app creators utilize Apple’s payment system exclusively with commissions of up to 30%.
Apple claims to have complied with the ACM’s December order, which determined it was abusing a dominating market position and required it to alter. Apple, however, has not obliged, according to the Dutch watchdog, and is imposing “unnecessary and unfair” limitations on dating app developers. Developers that want to utilize non-Apple payment methods must submit a new app to the App Store and then convince their consumers to convert, according to the ACM
Apple did not react to Reuters’ requests for comment, despite the fact that it claims non-Apple payment methods represent a security risk. Apple’s plan, according to the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF), which represents developers including Tinder owner Match Group, is to delay overhauling its app store as long as possible while figuring out the bare minimum of reform antitrust inspectors can tolerate.
According to CAF spokesperson Damien Geradin, “every year of delay is another $25 billion [€22 billion] in revenue” for Apple. “If you can carry on for another couple of years, wouldn’t you spend a few of million on lawyers?” Apple announced on January 15 that it had complied with the Dutch regulator’s judgment, but the regulator answered that Apple had made no modifications and had just stated that it would.
The company detailed how developers might add alternative payment mechanisms in a statement released on February 3, but the ACM claimed the corporation did not provide enough information to judge what had changed. Apple says it will continue to charge a 27% fee on any in-app payments it does not handle, which is somewhat less than the 30% it charges on those it does. A spokeswoman for the ACM declined to comment on whether or not this is permissible.


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Tesla will require masks for all workers at its Nevada battery factory
Tesla seems to have come a good distance from the times when it was defying local COVID-19 safety orders. Wall Street Journal sources declare Tesla will require all workers at its Nevada Gigafactory to put on masks beginning August ninth, no matter their vaccination standing. Employees at the battery plant beforehand solely wanted to put on masks in the event that they hadn’t been totally vaccinated.
The tipsters stated Tesla was toughening its coverage within the wake of the extra simply transmissible Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, together with up to date CDC steering recommending that vaccinated individuals put on masks indoors. Although full vaccinations nonetheless cut back the possibilities of an infection and signs, there’s proof that breakthrough circumstances (these situations when vaccinated individuals get contaminated) can readily transmit the virus to others.
The firm hasn’t responded to requests for feedback, though it is not anticipated to take action when it quietly disbanded its public relations group in fall 2020.
Tesla has been barely slower than its Detroit-based opponents, which reinstated masks mandates every week earlier. However, it is a sharp distinction from the EV maker’s angle in May 2020, when it defied an Alameda County lockdown and saved its Fremont automobile plant open. Elon Musk additionally threatened to maneuver Tesla’s headquarters out of California and sue the county. The transfer could have led to further infections at the Fremont plant, and Musk stated he contracted COVID-19 in November 2020.
It’s simpler for Tesla to conform this time when its factory can stay open. The automobile model can also’t afford to check officers’ persistence when it is struggling to keep up with demand for its automobiles. Still, the reported masks order is a pointy distinction to Tesla’s earlier angle — it is volunteering to take motion somewhat than combating again.
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High Street retail group Arcadia enjoys first benefits of core retail systems overhaul. Glynn Davis reports from New York
Arcadia Group is enjoying the first benefits of the overhaul of its core retail systems with a broad Oracle Retail deployment that is positioning it much more soundly for its accelerated global store expansion.
At its recently opened New York store on Fifth Avenue during a tour of the flagship that coincided with Retail’s Big Show, organised by NRF, Emma Taylor, US retail manager at Topshop, gave some insights into the fundamental changes taking place as the Oracle solution is implemented.
Named ‘Project Horizon’ this major ERP deployment involves Arcadia “ripping out the old legacy systems that are just not workable for an international business”, according to Taylor. Linked to the Oracle aspect is a new Singapore distribution centre that goes live in August and will remove the antiquated current practice of all stock passing through the group’s UK warehouses.
The first results from the far-reaching project come from the recent utilisation of the Oracle markdown optimisation option that went live initially in Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge on December 5 in the UK. The idea is that it will be used as an additional tool by merchandisers and the early feedback is that employees have taken to it well and that the algorithms are providing some quick financial benefits.
Other aspects of Oracle Retail will be gradually introduced into the business and help with the likes of replenishment and buying as the business will have a fuller grasp of its inventory across its growing international footprint.
Focus on personal shopping
Integral to this expansion is the US market and Taylor detailed how important the personal shopper element is to the American outlets. There are five rooms and one VIP area at the Fifth Avenue store where employees are equipped with iPads running a ‘clientelling’ solution.
“We use them to collect customer data and enhance the personal service,” she said, adding that this personal shopper service is a “status thing in the US” with customers valuing it highly. It already accounts for 15% of sales at the Fifth Avenue shop and Taylor has plans to grow it substantially.
Such is the power of this form of customer engagement that Taylor added that the average transaction value of a Topshop customer using the personal shopper service is $350 versus $98 for a regular customer.
Other initiatives planned in the US involve localising social media. “This year it’s a massive project as we now need to split off from the UK. All social media is run from the UK at the moment, with Instagram easily the biggest [platform] for us,” concluded Taylor.
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- Editorial: Apple and Intel Rumors
the past week, there have been rumours in the press (firstly in
the Wall Street Journal) about possible talks between Intel and
Apple. The subject of the talks is said to be the possible adoption
of Intel processors in Apple computers.
the moment Apple uses IBM's PowerPC processors, the G5 and the older
G4. There are several problems at present with this. Given the heat
generated by the G5, it is not currently being used in Apple's Powerbook
portable range. In addition, IBM have been slower than Intel in
the "megahertz" race, though to be fair the number of
clock cycles in not the only measure of a CPU's speed. Currently
the fastest G5 runs at 2.7GHz, compared to Intel's 3.7 GHz. So it
might just be seen as a ploy by Apple to get IBM to work more quickly
at sorting out these issues.
would be several benefits to switching to Intel. Firstly, Intel
chips are much cheaper. In the past Apple have dismissed using Intel
chips sighting the superiority of the PowerPC platform. However,
in the recent months we've seen the introduction of 32-bit/64-bit
Pentium 4 processors and also previously 64-bit Itanium. It is conceivable
that Apple may opt to skip the Pentium range, and go straight to
the Itanium. There are problems with switching, most notably that
software running on Apple's currently would need to be recompiled.
This has been done in the past by Apple, however, with their switch
to PowerPC several years ago. There has been talk that this problem
could be got around for the moment using smart emulators. Of course
there might have been talks about something else such as Intel networks
or Intel's power saving technology in laptops.
difficult to say what will happen, but what is sure is that both
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After dethroning her from the billionaire list, Forbes has now crowned Kylie Jenner as the highest-paid celebrity with an estimated annual earning of $590 million.
Her earnings are mostly from the sale of a 51 per cent stake in her Kylie Cosmetics line to Coty in 2019.
"While she had exaggerated over the years about the size of her business, the money she pulled in from the deal was real - enough to rank as one of the biggest celebrity cashouts of all time," Forbes wrote while unveiling their 2020 Celeb 100 list.
Kylie's brother-in-law and rapper Kanye West followed with an estimated $170 million in earnings, much of it from his deal with Adidas for his Yeezy sneakers.
Meanwhile, sports stars Roger Federer, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi dominated the top 5.
Tyler Perry, Neymar, Howard Stern, LeBron James and Dwayne Johnson rounded out the top 10, with musician Billie Eilish making her debut with $53 million in annual earnings.


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Notable technology investor Elad Gil recently observed that online markets are about ten times larger than they used to be ten to fifteen years ago. For companies this is mostly good news; you gain more customers and revenue than was even conceivable a decade ago.
But with great opportunity comes great opportunity costs. For companies with a substantial online presence, every moment of downtime means a staggering loss of revenue, customer goodwill, and expense to fix the issue.
While a decade or two ago, a server outage was a minor inconvenience, today it can mean a material loss of revenue. But just how much does it cost when there is a data center outage, a network crash, or mysterious technical outage? We analyzed the data to look at trends in the cost of data center outages.
As one would expect, the cost of technical outages has skyrocketed in recent years. What’s driving the growth in expense, however, isn’t that they are expensive to remedy. The cost driver is that when your product or service is down, you’re losing out on a lot of money. And while the costs of outages are higher than they’ve ever been, thankfully the tools to prevent or mitigate their impacts are also increasingly available.
To quantify the cost of downtime, data center company Vertiv has periodically commissioned the research firm Ponemon to calculate direct and indirect costs of an outage. The study was completed in 2010, 2013, and 2016, and used an activity-based costing method. In 2016, the study was based on 63 firms that experienced an outage that year.
The chart below shows the cost per minute of a data center outage:
In 2016, every single minute of server downtime cost nearly nine thousand dollars. Put differently, an hour of downtime costs over half a million dollars. In 2010, the cost per minute of downtime exceeded a very substantial five thousand dollars and by 2016 that figure increased nearly 60%.
Outages, unfortunately, rarely last only a minute. The following chart shows the average cost of an outage by year:
In 2016, the average outage costs nearly three quarters of a million dollars, an increase of nearly 50% from 2010 when it still cost almost half a million dollars. Given that each minute of downtime cost nearly $9,000, that implies the typical downtime is approximately an hour and twenty minutes. While a relatively short period, the cost (and stress for the IT department) of an outage is simply staggering.
In another report, the Uptime Institute examines the range of severity of different outage scenarios. In a 2018 survey of nearly three hundred firms with downtime incidents, the following was the distribution of the cost of the outages:
While the majority of incidents cost less than one million dollars, approximately 15% of the outages in the survey cost over a million dollars. In one case the cost of the outage exceeded $50MM dollars! As online markets grow larger, the downside risk from an outage is becoming increasingly uncapped.
What’s driving the exorbitant cost of an outage? Let’s break the overall cost into its subcomponents to better understand the cost drivers:
By far, the largest costs associated with outages are business disruption and lost revenue which combined make up over 60% of the total cost of an outage. It’s worth noting that these are opportunity costs from the outage, rather than direct costs associated with fixing it. In fact, each of the largest four cost buckets could be classified as opportunity costs and together they comprise 90% of the total cost of an outage.
In the grand scheme of things, fixing an outage is relatively cheap, but having your product go down is extremely expensive. New customers can’t sign up, existing customers aren’t being serviced, and your staff may have their daily activities brought to a standstill.
Of these cost categories, which ones are increasing the fastest? The following chart shows the growth rate of each cost bucket between 2010 and 2016:
The “opportunity cost” of downtime categories are not only the largest, but are growing the fastest. By a significant margin, the fastest growing cost category of downtime is lost revenue.
Why are people losing so much more revenue from being down than ever before? Simply put, more commerce and operations are completely online. Consider the case study of Microsoft. A decade ago, if their data centers went down, it wouldn’t affect selling copies of Microsoft Office or Windows which were distributed and operated offline. Today, much of their revenue comes from online subscriptions to their products or access to data center products. Downtime today would catastrophically affect revenue in a way that couldn’t be imagined 10 or 20 years ago.
While some industries are more inoculated from the risk of downtime, today others operate entirely online. The next chart shows the average cost of downtime by industry (keep in mind the sample size of this analysis is only 63 firms, so more limited conclusions should be drawn from this).
Costs are highest in high-transaction industries like finance and ecommerce where downtime means lost money. For example, when the Visa credit card network had half a day downtime in Europe in 2018, nearly 5.2 million transactions were affected even though 90% of transactions in the region still took place without issue. Or consider the cataclysmic and costly impact of a hospital network outage; last year Sutter Health of California experienced a network outage in all its hospitals. During the outage, patients were turned away and medical providers could not access electronic health records.
The biggest cost of downtime isn’t fixing the issue, but rather your opportunity costs that stem from the outage. Lost revenue, productivity, and business disruption costs dwarf all other outage related costs.
The old adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is especially apropos when it comes to data center outages. Companies can invest in predicting and preventing future systems crashes and save an inordinate amount of money by not incurring the costs of outages.
What are companies to do? One solution championed by Splunk is to deploy “predictive analytics” to mine data for early signals of an outage in order to prevent it from happening. Given the enormous amount of data generated by the modern enterprise, these kinds of solutions use machine learning and artificial intelligence to help humans anticipate future events. Being able to anticipate future events in one’s IT infrastructure has myriad applications from cybersecurity, gaining operational efficiencies, and even preventing future outages.
What other “low hanging fruit” can companies address to prevent future outages? Given that greater than 20% of all outages are a result of human error, investing in training and systems to prevent those kinds of errors can provide immediate dividends.
Furthermore, given that hardware failures and natural disasters can put your best-laid plans to waste, setting up a well-rehearsed recovery plan is absolutely necessary. After all, if the cost of downtime is about $9,000 a minute and rising, it’s best to have the shortest downtime possible.
And finally, if the biggest technology companies in the world occasionally suffer outages on their biggest days of the year, it could happen to anyone. Anything you can do to get ahead of the issues before outages take place will save you massive amounts of lost revenue and productivity.
Splunk Inc. turns machine data into answers with the leading platform to tackle the toughest security and IT challenges. See how companies can improve network reliability and prevent outages with the Power of Predictive IT.


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The World Coffee Roasting Championship (WCRC) will take place in Rimini, Italy, as part of Sigep at the Fiera de Rimini Expo Centre from 19 to 23 January, 2019.
“The first World Coffee Championships I ever attended in person were in Rimini, 2014, when I had just started with World Coffee Events,” says Amy Ball, Competitions Director for the Specialty Coffee Association.
“The Italian Exhibition Group was a fantastic host for our championships, and I’m so excited that we’ll be partnering with them again to bring WCRC to Italy.”
More than 20 competitors from across the globe will gather to compete in a series of rounds covering multiple styles of roasting.
Due to shifts in the 2018 championships cycle, the WCRC will award the 2018 World Coffee Roasting Champion title.
Giesen will be the official production roaster sponsor for 2018. Cropster will provide the roast analysing software.
The Sigep show has been running for 40 years, bringing together artisans and professional operators in the coffee, gelato, pastry and baking worlds.
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Eat spicy, live longer? Study says yes
Like a fiery finish to dinner? Then you'll be glad to know that a recent study suggests people who eat hot, spicy foods regularly may live longer.
Tulane University epidemiologist Dr. Lu Qi co-led the study of more than 500,000 Chinese adults over seven years. The results indicated that participants who ate foods flavored with chili peppers every day reduced their risk of premature dying by 14 percent, as compared to people who ate chili peppers less than once a week.
But apparently you don't have to indulge every day.
"Even among those who consumed spicy foods less frequently [one to two days a week], the beneficial effects could be observed. Indeed, moderate increase of spicy foods would benefit," someone's health, says Qi, who is the HCA Regents Distinguished Chair and Professor of Epidemiology.
In China, chili pepper is a popular spice, and participants reported eating their peppers fresh, dried and in sauce or oil. In the United States, hot pepper sauce has increased in popularity over the last decade, according to market research. Other spicy foods like horseradish, black pepper, garlic and ginger also may offer similar benefits.
"There also is preliminary data from other studies showing such potential," Qi says, noting that his study did not address those foods and that more research is needed on them.
The study was published in The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal).
Chili peppers contain capsaicin and other ingredients that may protect your health. Studies show capsaicin decreases appetite, may reduce risk of obesity and may offer antibacterial properties. It also may help protect against diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and other conditions. Chili peppers improve inflammation and reduce blood pressure and oxidative stress, Qi adds.
Even though capsaicin's benefits look promising, he recommends more research. Meantime, if you want extra zing in your life, let chili peppers do the work.
More information: "Consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality: population based cohort study." BMJ 2015; 351 doi: dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h3942


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DETROIT – The Forbes Under 30 Summit is bringing young entrepreneurs and innovators to Detroit.
The conference is in its sixth year. This is the first time it is being held in Detroit.
It not only celebrates those who make the Forbes Under 30 list, but also is a space for young entrepreneurs to collaborate.
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Reports : the faith of the next Dual-SIM will be exclusive in China
Will be the Apple company of the U.S. one of its bases antique this year, apparently, and for the first time in the history of the telephone by the famous faith, it will phone chip connection Double.
A number of reports confirmed that Apple already secured a slice of the double connection in one of the models of faith the three disclosed next month, which is a model of faith 9 screen 6.1 inch LCD display.
In WOT should read : expectations of the prices of the faith of the new in 2018
IPhone Dual SIM for the first time
Unfortunately, according to the same report, this will be the Dual SIM is available exclusively only in China, the largest market for smartphones in the world, after the increasing demands of the Chinese market this strike, with multiple companies contact there.
The report confirms that Apple is seeking to entice some Android users Chinese who miss their need of the capabilities provided connections Double-Double in their desire owning a EVO .
It is expected to choose the Apple on the 12 September as the date for an event detection models of the iPhone new.
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Sir Chris Hoy and Evans Cycles have teamed up with British Cycling to supply 1,500 bicycles to help youngsters get into the sport through the Go-Ride programme.
The initiative, which has been going for more than a decade now, gives young people their first taste of competitive cycling and coaching, with 30,000 involved last year alone.
Hoy, whose range of bikes is sold exclusively through Evans, said: “Inspiring young people across the country to start cycling and realise how great it can be is something I really believe in.
“That’s why Evans Cycles and I jumped at the chance to provide HOY bikes for British Cycling’s Go-Ride programme over the next four years, and hopefully we can help find the world champions of tomorrow.”
Delivered by British Cycling and supported by Sport England, Sky, the Bicycle Association and Lazer helmets, the scheme is also the first step on the Great Britain Cycling Team Performance Pathway.
The governing body says six in 10 of the Team GB riders aiming for Olympic gold at Rio next year came through the Go-Ride programme, and it hopes the new partnership will help unearth more talent for the future.
John Mills. British Cycling’s director of coaching, education and development, said: “We’re thrilled to be partnering with Evans Cycles as the provider of the bikes we use to deliver Go-Ride.
“The fact that the bikes bear the name of one of the most phenomenal athletes Britain has ever seen is sure to inspire thousands of young people to get into the sport.
“We are confident that we can provide over two million opportunities for young people nationwide to get into cycling by 2020 and this partnership will help us to be more ambitious than ever in uncovering the next generation of talent.”
Besides more than 300 Go-Ride clubs across the country, many of them at schools, there os also a dedicated Go-Ride Racing calendar of entry-level events.
James Backhouse, marketing director at Evans Cycles, said: “Riding your bike is one of the greatest things in the world, and by partnering with British Cycling we can help youngsters across the country discover that for themselves.
“We’re enormously proud to be part of the Go-Ride programme and are flattered that British Cycling gave us the opportunity.”
Meanwhile Hoy has also provided some tips for parents to encourage their children to take to two wheels.
1. Take your time choosing the bike
Heavy bikes can put children off cycling and will have them struggling up any little ramps or hills on the way. Lots of kids’ bikes on the high street weigh an absolute ton, but Evans Cycles pride themselves on selling quality children’s bikes (like the HOY ones, naturally) which can endure the same kind of thrashing as an adult’s bike.
2. Learn to stop before you start
It’s sensible to teach your kids the basics of braking before they start going fast. This will keep them safe during their first parent-free runs and give them confidence and the feeling of control.
3. Lose the pedals
For the very youngest budding cyclists, a great alternative to stabilisers is ‘runner’ bikes. Try one to help your toddler get to grips with the basics of balance and being in the cycling position for the first time.
4. Safety first
Not all kids want kids’ helmets - sometimes they want to be ‘big kids’ - but once children are old enough to understand, try talking to them about the reasons for wearing a helmet as well as leading by example yourself. And it goes without saying that choosing a great-looking lid that fits well makes all the difference.
5. Get going
Head for somewhere away from busy roads and lots of people where your little ones can have the space to develop their bike handling skills. Wheelies, track-stands and jumps are all things you can work up to…
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An estimated 74.39 million automobiles are forecast to be sold this year, according to Statista. That's up about 2.8% over 2015, which on the surface doesn't look like fabulous growth.
What isn't apparent in the numbers, though, is the amount and type of semiconductor content. Electronic control units, which are primarily driven by MCUs, increasingly are being replaced by SoCs. Automotive co... » read more


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This new Amazon card could open the door to a huge segment of U.S. buyers. According to a 2018 FICO survey, more than 11% of the population has a credit score below 550. About 4% of the population has a “bad credit score,” which according to FICO Score is between 300 and 499. Meanwhile according to a 2017 survey by the FDIC, 25% of U.S. households are either unbanked or underbanked.
The program prompts users with financial literacy tools and tips to learn about building credit. For example, it might include a tutorial on why someone should pay a minimum, Quindlen said. Borrowers can eventually “graduate” to an unsecured Amazon credit card once they’ve demonstrated they can pay back the loans.
Reaching further down the credit curve comes with risks. Quindlen said they’re mitigating that by issuing what are known as “secured” credit cards. People can deposit $500, for example, and have a $500 credit limit. The interest rate, or APR, for the starter card is 28.24%.
“It’s putting credit in the hands of people in a responsible way,” he said. Stamford, Connecticut-based Synchrony Bank, which is a subsidiary of Synchrony Financial, also issues co-branded credit cards with Lowe’s, Sam’s Club, PayPal, Banana Republic and other companies.
The new card application sits directly next to the other Amazon cards. If a customer doesn’t get approved for an Amazon credit card, they’ll be prompted for this new offering and asked if they want to apply to “Amazon Credit Builder” instead. They can eventually “graduate” to another Amazon store card, once they’ve built credit history, according to Quindlen.


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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – International biotechnology research company 21st.BIO shared that ingredient manufacturers may access its precision fermentation platform to produce dairy proteins at a competitive cost.
The company said it scaled its beta-lactoglobulin protein – the major whey protein in milk that provides nutrients and textural components found in traditional dairy.
21st.BIO said by offering its precision fermentation technology to manufacturers, it aims to mitigate the costs and time investments companies typically need. The Denmark-based bioproduction specialist said its platform “provides a sustainable and less carbon and resource intensive alternative to traditional animal-based production methods and helps to stabilize global food supply chains.”
Customers who use the platform, the company added, will get access to industrial production strains, fermentation processes, and support with scaling up, tech transfers to contract manufacturers, and regulatory approvals.
Novonesis licenses the technology foundation, which 21st.BIO said has been used “to provide dozens of food-grade products on the market today.”
Thomas Schmidt, chief executive officer for 21st.BIO, said the company was founded in 2020 to help as many companies as possible use precision fermentation and take products to market at competitive prices.
“We believe this is the best way for technology to support and accelerate the transition to more sustainable and better nutrition globally,” Schmidt said. “With this new offering, I am proud that companies will be able to safely scale innovation into industrial production and meet global demand utilizing our technology and expertise."
The company operates R&D laboratories at its Copenhagen, Denmark, headquarters, as well as in Davis, Calif.


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Billtrust snapped up by EQT Private Equity in $1.7bn deal
Billtrust, a US-based business-to-business (B2B) accounts receivable (AR) automation and integrated payments provider, is to be acquired by EQT Private Equity in a deal worth $1.7 billion.
The deal will see Billtrust shareholders receive $9.50 per share in cash, representing a more than 64% premium above the closing share price of $5.77 on 27 September 2022.
Founded in 2001, Billtrust is a provider of cloud-based software and integrated payment processing solutions that simplify and automate B2B commerce. The platform automates complex and historically manual processes around credit decisioning and monitoring, online ordering, invoicing, payments and remittance capture, cash application and collections.
The deal with EQT Private Equity, a division of global investment firm EQT, has been approved by Billtrust’s board of directors and is expected to close in Q1 2023.
Upon completion of the transaction, Billtrust shares will no longer trade on the NASDAQ and the firm will become a private company.
Arvindh Kumar, partner and co-head of EQT’s global technology sector team, says Billtrust operates at the intersection of software, fintech and payments — “sectors in which EQT has deep familiarity and a track record of success”.
Billtrust founder and CEO Flint Lane adds B2B payments and accounts receivable “continue to be ripe for massive disruption and innovation” and says the deal will provide the firm “with greater resources” and flexibility to grow.
Billtrust has made two acquisitions itself in recent years, with the firm buying fellow B2B paytech Order2Cash in February and iController last year. The latter helped broaden the company’s Business Payments Network (BPN), an open network supporting buyers and suppliers.


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Showtime Management and international partner Selladoor Worldwide have postponed the South African tour of the We Will Rock You musical to 2022. South Africa is currently in its third wave of Covid-19 infections and, as such, the government has implemented precautions that only allows for a total audience of 100 people.
From East London to some of South Africa's most storied agencies. After winning on global stages and achieving what she set out to on the inside of the corporate advertising machinery, Leigh-Anne Salonika is living her purpose, and in doing so working with brands to unlock theirsByEvan-Lee Courie
Decreasing plastic waste and enhancing plastic recycling remains a focus area for South Africa, according to forestry, fisheries and environment minister Barbara Creecy.
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“A central focus of all our efforts has been to decrease plastic waste and enhance the recycling of plastics. This is in line with our commitment to reducing plastic waste in the environment and preventing this dangerous pollutant from entering our rivers and oceans,” said the minister on Thursday, 15 April. Creecy was addressing a virtual session of the 2021 African Circular Economy Alliance (ACEA).
She said the economies of the African continent have been severely affected by the global Covid-19 pandemic.
“As we recover, we will have to use all the innovative tools at our disposal in order to build back better. One of the important ways in which we can do this is by fully integrating circular economy initiatives into our nation’s recovery plans,” she said, adding that the circular economy is consistent with South Africa’s Constitution.
“Our country’s post-Covid-19 Reconstruction and Recovery Plan includes a green economy component, which promotes waste recycling, renewable energy generation, revitalising our ecotourism and forestry sectors, and retrofitting government buildings to improve climate resilience and save on water and energy consumption.”
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Eliminating single-use plastics
Creecy said efforts to reduce plastic waste have spanned across the retail and fast food sector, where significant initiatives by the Consumer Goods Council to eliminate single-use plastics have been seen.
This includes the promotion of changes in product design to facilitate recycling, and investment in research and development to promote new products made from plastic recyclate.
Government is also in the process of amending plastic bag regulations. As a result, from 1 January 2021, all plastic bags must be made of a minimum of 50% post-recyclate material; 75% recycled materials from the start of 2025, and must comprise 100% post-consumer recyclate by 2027.
“These targets will be met by ensuring that post-consumer recyclate is made up of household, industrial and commercial waste diverted from landfills, thus further entrenching circularity in waste management and product development,” said Creecy.
Woolworths is expanding its 'plastic shopping bag free' policy to 52 more stores and has announced the replacement of plastic packaging with kraft packaging in 'Ripe and Ready' avocados...
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Informal waste recyclers
Creecy said waste reclaimers and the informal sector must be accommodated in the value chain by addressing their role in the circular economy.
“In many towns and cities in South Africa, waste reclaimers are important actors in diverting recyclable material from landfills. Investment here will be focused on the economies associated with transporting of recyclables to waste processing facilities, separation at source, and addressing the skills gaps within the sector.
“Central to our efforts is a commitment to ensuring we transition reclaimers from a precarious hand-to-mouth existence, to sustainable and dignified livelihoods,” she said.
Reflecting on circular economy initiatives on the continent, Creecy said the implementation of the Africa Green Stimulus Programme (AGSP) is at the forefront of Africa’s response to the economic downturn caused by the pandemic.
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The minister said the African continent is the first region to establish a regional forum for circular economy implementation. This, she said, is a significant development for a continent with a growing population and a large informal business sector.
“At a continental level, we want to see recycling growing not only for effective waste management and resource use, but also to help us in addressing our challenges relating to unemployment and economic recovery.
“Incorporating informal economy actors, such as waste reclaimers and recyclers, is crucial, particularly in areas where there is limited government waste management capacity,” she said.
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For local photographer and Our Voices Project co-founder, director and producer Jackie McGriff, it was a comment by a photo subject that got to her.
“‘My face may break your camera,’” McGriff recalls. As someone who struggled with her own body image in the past, “it broke me.”
It also was not the first time she had heard a similar sentiment. A 2021 YouGovAmerica survey on body image found that 60 percent of women said they felt completely or somewhat pressured to have a particular body type compared with 42 percent of men.
Inspired to take that attitude and create something positive instead, McGriff launched the “Galentine’s Day Sessions,” a holiday made popular by the TV show “Parks and Recreation.” In the show, female characters meet a day before Valentine’s Day to celebrate the love they have for each other. The show’s perennial optimist, Leslie Knope, calls it: “Lilith Fair minus the angst and plus frittatas.”
For McGriff, it is a way to find the beauty in one’s own body through photography.
“It’s a way of going into this year saying that we’re in this together. I’m going to step out in front of everyone and boldly say that I love my body how it is now,” she says.
“For years and years, I didn’t want anyone taking photos of me. I hated the way I looked in photos,” McGriff notes, saying one way to change that perception is to “take photos of yourself. Learn to look at yourself in a different light. Take selfies until you love the way you look.”
At the Galentine’s Day Sessions, she encourages that attitude and support in a group setting by asking participants to write Galentine’s Day cards to one another. A previous Galentine’s Day Session with that approach was met with appreciation.
“Jackie did an amazing job of matching our energy and meeting us where we were at,” says Tiffany Nicholas, a local entrepreneur, “but she also encouraged us to step out of our comfort zones when we were in front of the camera. I loved being able to spend this time with my friends and shower them with love and compliments, and I’m so grateful to Jackie for being able to capture that.”
While the “Parks and Recreation” holiday is set one day before Valentine’s Day, McGriff’s Galentine’s Day Sessions kick off Feb. 4 to celebrate the holiday even longer.


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European Union to Reveal Plans for Digital Wallet: Report
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The European Union (EU) is set to announce plans for a digital wallet to store payment details and identity credentials among other information, according to reports.
The plans follow requests from member states to offer a secure way for citizens to access public services, Reuters reported Tuesday citing the Financial Times. The wallet would store passwords and payment details, allowing access to local government websites and bill payments using a single digital identity. EU officials are in talks with member states about a rollout. The wallet is expected to be operational in around a year's time, according to the report.


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China’s online population which is by far the world’s largest has hit 485 million users at the end of June. This figure symbolizes a 6.1% increase from the end of 2010.
The survey which was released by the China Internet Network Information Centre shows an increase of 27.7 million web users since December. This number is almost the equivalent of the entire population of Malaysia.
The figure represents more than a third of the population is online.
Weibo, which is a popular Twitter-like service, saw an increase of 195 million users at the end of June 2011, from 63.11 million at the end of last year.
The internet represents a portal for mass expression, although it is still tightly controlled. Weibo has become “a form of Internet application that has the fastest growing number of users”, the survey said.
The number of people surfing the web on mobile phones reached 318 million, up by 14.94 million from six months ago.
The Internet also provides users as a marketplace which is also a popular domain with the number of online shoppers rising 7.6% from the end of last year to 172.66 million.
The growing intensity and influence of the web has fuelled concern in Beijing about the Internet’s potential as a tool for generating social unrest, which has subsequently lead to the increase of surveillance by authorities in recent years. The Chinese government blocks web content that it deems politically sensitive in a vast system dubbed the “Great Firewall of China”.


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Auto theft in Missouri has dropped from last year. Tracy Sadeghian has the details from Jefferson City.
According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, Almost 23-thousand cars were reported stolen in Missouri in 1996.
And auto theft has decreased by 4-percent since 1995.
But Missouri Insurance Information Spokesman Calvin Call says auto theft is costing the state...
Oldsmobile Cutlass, Chevrolet Caprice, Oldsmobile Delta, Chevrolet Cavalier, Ford Escort led the pack as the most frequently stolen cars.
From the Capital, I'm Tracy Sadeghian.


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Video: This microSD card crams 400GB of storage into your smartphone
Western Digital unveils the latest generation of intelligent iNAND 8521 and iNAND 7550 embedded flash drives (EFDs) built to cater for the demands that 5G, AR, AI, and 360-degree streaming video will place on storage.
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The iNAND 8521 utilizes the UFS 2.1 interface and Western Digital's new fifth-generation SmartSLC technology to deliver up to double the sequential write speed, and up to 10 times the random write speed compared with the company's previous iNAND mobile solution for flagship smartphones.
The iNAND 7550 EFD allows device makers to build more cost-effective smartphones and computing devices that feature ample storage to meet the needs of increasing consumer content without compromising performance. Built to e.MMC 5.1 specifications, it delivers sequential write performance of up 260 MB/s and random read/write performance of 20K IOPS and 15K IOPS respectively, dramatically enhancing boot and application launch times.
Both EFDs will be marketed under the SanDisk brand.
"By end of 2018, we estimate that average storage capacity will climb to over 60 gigabytes per smartphone globally to support the growing proportion of rich multimedia content and data-driven experiences from artificial intelligence to augmented reality on the devices," said Neil Shah, research director of devices and ecosystems at Counterpoint Research. "This warrants a move to advanced 3D NAND embedded flash storage solutions, which will drive these richer experiences even further."
Western Digital is currently sampling iNAND 8521 and iNAND 7550 EFDs to OEMs in capacities up to 256GB.


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